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Japan Panel Green-Lights Pfizer’s Tukysa, Wider Labels for Tezspire, and More Drugs
A Japanese health ministry panel on January 29 recommended approvals for Pfizer’s new HER2-targeted cancer therapy tucatinib, marketed overseas under the brand name of Tukysa, together with a batch of label expansions for existing medicines. The Pharmaceutical Affairs Council’s Second…
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